With a smartphone and an app, qualified healthcare professionals can now diagnose fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) in their office. A newly developed system was trained to recognize the alcohol-related disorder. The app, which can diagnose 300 of the more common genetic disorders, is called Face2Gene and uses facial analysis technology.

A single blood test screens for eight common cancer types and helps identify the location of the cancer. The test, called CancerSEEK, is a unique noninvasive, multianalyte test that simultaneously evaluates levels of eight cancer proteins and the presence of cancer gene mutations from circulating DNA in the blood.

A plasmonic biosensor can detect diseased exosomes even by the naked eye. Exosomes, important indicators of health conditions, are cell-derived vesicles that are present in blood and urine. A rapid analysis by biosensors helps recognize inflammatory bowel diseases, cancer, and other diseases rapidly in order to start relevant treatments in time.

The first clinical study of a low-cost, handheld jaundice detector shows that saving newborn lives in sub-Saharan Africa is achievable. BiliSpec, a low-cost, battery-powered reader, is designed to diagnose jaundice by immediately quantifying serum bilirubin levels from a small drop of whole blood.

Silicone Extrusion Equipment

Rosendahl, Pischelsdorf, Austria, offers a line of silicone extrusion equipment designed to provide high flexibility and low scrap rates. The RN-Z sili-cone extrusion line can perform 24/7 at high speeds. Lines are available for conductor cross sections from 0.22 to 300 mm2. The line is configured for single and multilayer applications with defined adhesion between layers. A crosslinking process keeps the material stable and processes it into a cable with the requisite mechanical properties. The line can be operated by a single operator.

An optical whispering gallery mode resonator can spin light around the circumference of a tiny sphere millions of times, creating an ultrasensitive microchip-based sensor for multiple applications. Engineers have developed an innovative way to grow on-chip glass microspherical shells with incredible sensitivities that potentially can be used for motion, temperature, pressure or biochemical sensing.

Power Supply

A 400-W power supply is now available from Integrated Power Designs, Wilkes-Barre, PA. The power supply comes with two to four outputs in a compact 4 × 7 × 1.5 in. package. High power density is achieved through the use of an interleaved boundary conduction mode converter, giving the power supply a peak efficiency of 90 percent. All outputs are adjustable and fully regulated. Unique voltages are easily configured and are available as positive, negative, or isolated. Additional output features include overpower protection, overvoltage protection, power fail warning, remote sense on output #1, and independent voltage inhibit for each output. Standard specifications include universal 85-264 Vac input, power factor correction, and –20 to +70 °C operation.

Researchers have demonstrated a new technique for making piezoelectric microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) by connecting a sample of lead zirconate titanate (PZT) piezoelectric thin films to flexible polymer substrates.

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